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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology 22.1 pp 49-56
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THE RATE OF RESPIRATION IN ERYTHROCYTES.-II. THE RATE IN MATURE RABBIT ERYTHROCYTES

Robert Ramsey 1 and Charles O. Warren Jr. 1

1 Washington Square College, New York University

1. Orthochromatic rabbit erythrocytes suspended in saline consume oxygen at the minimum rate of 8.44 mm.3/grm./hr., and reticulocytes at the rate of 250 mm.3/grm./hr.

2. In a sample of blood drawn from a normal rabbit, in which the reticulocyte concentration is 0·5 per cent., nearly 90 per cent. of the observed respiration of the red cells is due to the orthochromatic erythrocytes.

3. With the progress of anæmia (by hæmorrhage) more oxygen is consumed by the red cells than can be accounted for on the basis that the two rates of respiration given above remain constant.

Submitted on February 16, 1932






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